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Show 362 ACTS RELATING S ECT. Part III. IV. Proceeding: fo/Zé' fwmz‘lzfljz‘om. Sect. IV. To THE Commas. terms, that he might be enabled to fecure the dependence of the colonies. The papers contained a hif‘tory of the dif'turb- ances. The duty, payable in America, ' 363 that OW little attention, during the fe- had been impofed on the article of tea by cond and third fefiions, was paid to the affairs of America, firong as were the terms in which they had been recom~ mended from the throne, we have already feen. The three fucceeding {effions pail:- ed away, as if they had been equally for- gotten both by the crown and by the two houfes. Early however in the concluding {ef- fions an incident happened which roufed the lall parliament, this duty, we may remember, continued unrepealed. An alter- ther exported by the company directly, the ruling powers from their lethargy. or by inch private adventurers as fhould A melliage accordingly was fent from his majefty to the two houfcs, together with certain papers. The ineliage contained two requilitions; the one of a more particular purport, that he might be cn~ abled to put an end to the dilturbances then fubfitling; the other in general have purchafed it at their {ales 9*. 6 terms, ation indeed had been made refpeéting that article in the feflions preceding this, tho' of a nature very difi'erent from. taxation. The duties paid here in England under the name of euftom, upon its original importation, was by a drawback remitted upon all teas exported to America; whe- No- thing was added on this account to the duties payable in America. By this operation the charge upon the only article that continued the objet‘t of a tax payable ‘39 13 Geo Ill. c. 44, |